ctan-ann March 2008

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CTAN Update: tablor
by CTAN Announcements 25 Mar '08

25 Mar '08

On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Guillaume Connan submitted an update to the tablor package. The package allows the user to use the computer algebra system XCAS to generate tables of signs and of variations (the actual plotting of the tables uses the MetaPost macro package tableauVariations The tablor package requires that shell escape be enabled. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/tablor License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Still tablor 2.01 but with an utf-8 version of tablor.sty which fixes a bug with £ and µ characters within a Verbatim Environment. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/tablor . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=tablor (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: mongolian language hyphenation file
by CTAN Announcements 24 Mar '08

24 Mar '08

On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 Batmunkh Dorjgotov submitted an update to the hyphenation file for the mongolian language. Location on CTAN: language/hyphenation/mnhyphn.tex License type: lppl Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: xargs
by CTAN Announcements 24 Mar '08

24 Mar '08

On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 Manuel Pegourie-Gonnard submitted an update to the xargs package. The package provides extended versions of ewcommand and related LaTeX commands, which allow easy and robust definition of macros with many optional arguments, using a clear and simple xkeyval-style syntax. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/xargs Summary description: extented optional arguments handling License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Two new features: 1. The usedefault key allows you, when using many consecutive optional arguments, to specify a value only for the last one if you want. 2. You can know make gobal (or even protected) definitions easily with the addprefix key. Have fun! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/xargs . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=xargs (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: tablor
by CTAN Announcements 24 Mar '08

24 Mar '08

On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 Guillaume Connan submitted an update to the tablor package. The package allows the user to use the computer algebra system XCAS to generate tables of signs and of variations (the actual plotting of the tables uses the MetaPost macro package tableauVariations The tablor package requires that shell escape be enabled. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/tablor Summary description: Create tables of signs and of variations License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 more environments to study fonctions which derivative has no formal zero. Version 2.01 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/tablor . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=tablor (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: kpfonts
by CTAN Announcements 24 Mar '08

24 Mar '08

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: kpfonts Author's name: Caignaert Christophe Location on CTAN: /fonts/kpfonts Summary description: New release of kpfonts License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Kpfonts is a very full set of fonts for typesetting text and math. It includes real small caps, all current math symbols (TeX, AMS and more), in normal and bold version. The kepler's project is to provide a large set of options to customize your typesetting. The major release 2.0 gets a 'light' option, with lighter roman fonts and same metrics... This 2.1 release gets: - a new option 'oldstylenums' with oldstyle numbers as default (and nothing else), - a full support of 'textcomp' package. Read the .pdf doc file available in english and in french! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/kpfonts . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/kpfonts (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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Re: dante.ctan.org upload: The caption package v3.1g
by CTAN Announcements 23 Mar '08

23 Mar '08

On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 Axel Sommerfeldt submitted an update to the caption package. The caption package provides many ways to customise the captions in floating environments like figure and table, and cooperates with many other packages. Includes rotating captions, sideways captions, continued captions (for tables or figures that come in several parts). A list of compatibility notes, for other packages, is provided in the documentation. The package also provides the caption outside float facility, in the same way that simpler packages like capt-of do. The package supersedes caption2. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/caption/ License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bugfix release of the caption package bundle: - Skips are handled correctly now in lstlistings - captionlistentry for longtables: Table counter will not be incremented anymore, ameref works - Starred variant of captionlistentry added - Test for empty caption text improved - fltpage package support revised, bug fixes regarding ContinuedFloat and captionsetup, FPlist=figure used to produce two entries - thesis document class support added - within=section will be handled correctly within book/report classes - Missing options listfigurename= & listtablename= added - KOMA-Script support improved (Thanks to Markus Kohm!) - Improved compatibility: captionsetup{position=b} will be set if the ftcap, nonfloat, or topcapt package is used - Improvement: captionsetup{list=off} is valid for sub-captions, too - Improved support of LTcaptype in longtable, improved longtable* ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/caption/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=caption (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package updatge: pst-func
by CTAN Announcements 21 Mar '08

21 Mar '08

Herbert Voss wrote: > I uploaded pst-func.tgz to the uk mirror. Please replace the > files with the ones in the directory > /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-func/ > > > pst-func is a PSTricks related package for drawing > special mathematical functions like distributions, > polynomials, a.s.o. > > This update has a new macro psBezier, which allows > to plot a Bezier curve from order 1 (two control points) > up to order 9 (10 control points). > See the documentation for more informations. > > pst-func.tex -------- > 0.53 2008-03-21 - added macro psBezier# for Bezier curves of order > #=1...9 with 2..10 pairs of coordinates > 0.52 2008-03-02 - changes macros from SpecialObj to OpenObj, which > allows using the macros inside pscustom > 0.51 2008-02-27 - enable filling support for psIntegral and > psCumIntegral (suggested by Rafal Bartczuk) > > pst-func.pro -------- > 0.08 2008-03-21 added BezierCurve code for Bezier curves of up to > order 9 > 0.07 2007-08-30 new subroutine LogGamma i have installed the new version and updated the catalogue. thanks for the update. users may view the catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pst-func.html or browse the package directory on the archive at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-func/ (the catalogue entry will be updated overnight tonight.) Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Babel release 3.8j
by Johannes L. Braams 21 Mar '08

21 Mar '08

Hi, I have been updating a number of files in the babel distribution. I will keep on doing so for some time to come in order get rid of my back log. I will not announce the update of each individual file, but tpday I prepared version 3.8j of the babel core files. They will be available from CTAN from march 22nd I expect. If you encounter any problems with the new versions, please report that using the regular LaTeX bugs reporting procedures. Kind regards, Johannes Braams

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CTAN package update: vc bundle
by CTAN Announcements 21 Mar '08

21 Mar '08

The package below has been updated here at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: vc bundle Author's name: Stephan Hennig Location on CTAN: /support/vc Summary description: version control for TeX and friends License type: pd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The vc bundle ---------------------- This is a script based approach to version control for TeX documents. It works more reliably than keyword substitution based approaches, since it tracks all files in a working copy, not only .tex files. The vc bundle works with LaTeX and plain TeX. Currently, Bazaar, Git and Subversion are supported. v0.3 (2008-03-20) ---------------------- New: * Added support for Bazaar. * The vc bundle is now Public Domain. Changes: * Fixed line endings in Unix scripts (solving several issues). * Fixed handling of variable LANG in shell scripts. * Improved documentation: - Added some more Questions and answers. To the CTAN maintainers: Please note the license change! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/vc . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/vc (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN package update: chemstyle
by CTAN Announcements 21 Mar '08

21 Mar '08

The package below has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: chemstyle Author's name: Joseph Wright Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/chemstyle Summary description: Writing chemistry with style License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- v1.2a: - Fixed problem with restyling schemes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/chemstyle . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/chemstyle (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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